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Title: Colonel Sam Smith Park - Apr 10 - Lesser Black-backed Gull
Post by: thouc on April 10, 2014, 12:05:28 PM

Today there was a Lesser Black-backed Gull on the ice in the marina together with lots of other gulls, among them 2 Glaucous Gulls. Not too much passerine activity today (on Monday I saw Fox Sparrow, Winter Wren).

Complete list:

Toronto--Colonel Samuel Smith Park, Toronto, CA-ON
Apr 10, 2014 9:20 AM - 10:30 AM
Protocol: Traveling
2.5 kilometer(s)
39 species

Canada Goose  5
Mute Swan  2
Wood Duck  2
Gadwall  1
Mallard  20
Ring-necked Duck  3
Greater Scaup  50
Lesser Scaup  2
White-winged Scoter  3
Long-tailed Duck  15
Bufflehead  30
Common Goldeneye  10
Common Merganser  1
Red-breasted Merganser  10
Pied-billed Grebe  1
Horned Grebe  2
Red-necked Grebe  200
Double-crested Cormorant  12
Black-crowned Night-Heron  2
Cooper's Hawk  1
Killdeer  1
Ring-billed Gull  100
Herring Gull  50
Lesser Black-backed Gull  1    On the ice in the marina. Slighly smaller than Herring Gull, dark grey mantle color (not as black as Great Black-backed Gull), yellow legs.
Glaucous Gull  2    On the ice in the marina. Larger than Herring Gulls. One 1st winter bird, bi-coloured bill, very light-coloured overall, including wing tips. One adult bird with fairly light-coloured mantle and white wing tips.
Mourning Dove  1
Downy Woodpecker  1
American Crow  1
Tree Swallow  3
Golden-crowned Kinglet  2
American Robin  30
European Starling  5
American Tree Sparrow  1
Song Sparrow  10
Dark-eyed Junco  2
Red-winged Blackbird  25
Common Grackle  15
Brown-headed Cowbird  6
American Goldfinch  1

View this checklist online at http://ebird.org/ebird/view/checklist?subID=S17827362 (http://ebird.org/ebird/view/checklist?subID=S17827362)

This report was generated automatically by eBird v3 (http://ebird.org/canada (http://ebird.org/canada))

Title: Re: Colonel Sam Smith Park - Apr 10 - Lesser Black-backed Gu
Post by: Dinusaur on April 10, 2014, 05:23:20 PM

Wow, trained eyes see 39 species; untrained eyes like mine will most likely find 3 or a maximum of 9. So the Snowy finally departed from that area? I didn't see any mention of it.

Title: Re: Colonel Sam Smith Park - Apr 10 - Lesser Black-backed Gu
Post by: thouc on April 10, 2014, 07:21:26 PM

I didn't the see the Snowy Owl today or Monday. Last report of it on eBird is from April 3.